Acid Rain

According to the EPA, which is NOT a major source of acid rain?

• Vehicles and heavy equipment

• Burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity

• Natural sources such as volcanoes

• Manufacturing, oil refining, and other industries

The difference between wet and dry deposition is...

• wet deposition only happens in deserts

• dry deposition happens without rain when acid deposits on surfaces

• dry deposition is impossible

• dry deposition is higher in areas that receive more rain

Acid rain has a pH

• equal to 7

• about 5.6

• greater than 7

• between 4.2 and 4.4

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Acid rain can have a poor effect even on fish that can tolerate a lower pH because

• It burns their skin

• It kills the food they eat

• It causes mutations

• The fish turn into frogs

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Acid rain can cause damage to

• Trees and plants

• lakes and coastal waters

• monuments and buildings

• all of these

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Acid rain pollutants include

• SO2

• NOx

• Ozone

• All of these

Which of these is not a health risk from acid rain?

• asthma breathing difficulties

• heart attacks resulting in death for people with increased heart disease risk

• effects on lung function

• burning skin from swimming in a lake affected by acid rain

The acid rain program set out to reduce emissions of

• SO2

• NOx

• Both SO2 and NOx

• Neither of these

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Both SO2 and NOx emissions reduction programs are two-phase programs.

• True

• False

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The results of the Acid Rain Program have led to

• Reductions in SO2 emissions, but not NOx emissions or Wet Sulfate deposition.

• Reductions in SO2 and NOx emissions, but not in Wet Sulfate deposition.

• No reductions in SO2 emissions, but reductions in NOx emissions and Wet Sulfate deposition.

• Reductions in SO2 emissions, NOx emissions, and Wet Sulfate deposition.

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